That’s pretty reductionist and also untrue.

It’s hard to reconcile, but here are actually Republicans and conservatives that aren’t bigots.

They’re a minority, and a quickly fading one, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Remember, the Republican party of today was formed post civil rights. People cling to their identity and ideas long after reality has left them behind.

Does that make them stupid? No more or less than anyone that clings to any party affiliation past when the party changes.

But there is movement away from the Republican party by those that weren’t bigots that bought into the whole idea (falsely claimed) of reduced government control and free market ideals.

While I tend to think those stances are pretty fucking dumb to begin with, it isn’t bigotry.

The other problem is that as those leave, even more bigots pull off their masks and some of the extremist bigots that weren’t previously engaged in the political structure jump on board.

People are very stupid. We all are in some way or another, usually multiple some ways. One of those forms of stupidity is thinking that change from the inside is the only choice. Another is that you have to pick someone to vote for. Another is that you can resist bigots by engaging with them. And all of those are common among the non bigot Republicans.

I keep running into Republicans and ex Republicans and having to remind them that the party as it exists is not the party they thought it was, that it has used dog whistling and other tools of the so called southern strategy so long and so well that it has transformed into something even worse than the left thought possible.

But they are not all bigots.

That being said, there’s also a good bit of ACAB present too. Those non bigots are still part of the problem, they’re just as responsible for it happening. I would call it ARAB, but that’s a pretty horrible initialism lol. But that’s why identity politics is a horrible thing.